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📣 Fall Harvest 2025 auction!!!
✨Dear participants — young and old, chefs, donors, and Grannies, This year, you have all outdone yourselves in making the Wakefield Grannies Online Auction our most successful fundraiser in the past four years! You truly deserve a big pat on the shoulder, and can feel proud to have been part of this success story. We had such a rich variety of offerings — something for everyone. 💥We are thrilled to share the final amount raised for our sisters in South Africa: an amazing $4,673! There were 121 participants and we received 697 bids! This is a great participation. The Wakefield Grannies want to express our heartfelt gratitude for your generosity — for the hours spent in the kitchen, and for your financial support of this important cause. 💞Un gros merci à tous! The Wakefield Grannies💞 |
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📣 Vente aux enchères de l'automne 2025 !!!
✨Chers participants, jeunes et moins jeunes, chefs cuisiniers, donateurs et Grannies, Cette année, vous vous êtes tous surpassés pour faire de la vente aux enchères en ligne Wakefield Grannies notre collecte de fonds la plus réussie depuis quatre ans ! Vous méritez vraiment une grande tape dans le dos et pouvez être fiers d'avoir participé à cette réussite. Nous avons proposé une grande variété d'offres, il y en avait pour tous les goûts. 💥Nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer le montant final récolté pour nos sœurs en Afrique du Sud : la somme incroyable de 4673 dollars ! Nous avons compté 121 participants et reçu 697 enchères ! C'est une participation exceptionnelle. Les Wakefield Grannies tiennent à vous exprimer leur sincère gratitude pour votre générosité, pour les heures passées dans la cuisine et pour votre soutien financier à cette cause importante. 💞Un gros merci à tous ! Les Wakefield Grannies💞 |
Who are the Wakefield Grannies?
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Initiatives & Highlights
The Wakefield Grannies, founded in 2004, have embraced many fundraising initiatives over the years. These have included open-air benefit concerts at Fairbairn House , community bazaars, annual plant sales, online food auctions, jewelry & scarves and hand-knitted sales at the Wakefield Summer Market.
Our annual International Women's Day Event has become a standing-room-only event in recent years! Held at Centre Wakefield La Peche, this variety show has something for everyone. Dozens of local artists, entertainers and musicians share their time, skill and effort to put on a spectacular not-to-be-missed show. We also join with the regional network of Granny Groups under the auspices of the Stephen Lewis Foundation (SLF) when they have the Grand Market at Landsdowne Park. stephenlewisfoundation.org/ 
Wakefield Grannies Benefit Concert at Fairbairn House
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Support & Solidarity
The Wakefield Grannies support AIDS Orphans and their Grandmothers in South Africa in both Alexandra Township, Gauteng, through the Orphans' Project and in Nulazatsche village in Kwazulu Natal through the Rotary Club of Pietermaritzburg. We provide financial assistance, friendship, solidarity and mutual moral support.
Letters of Friendship
Many of our Wakefield Grannies connect with individual South African grandmothers or Gogos (Zulu for grandmother) through personal letters several times a year. This ongoing correspondence has created personal relationships which have enriched both our lives and the lives of our Gogo friends. These valued friendships play an important part in alleviating the devastation of the worst medical disaster in history.
Financial Support from FundraisingFinancial contributions from The Wakefield Grannies have enabled the purchase of winter blankets, pharmaceutical products, diabetic socks, hot water bottles etc. We also help finance special retreats for the Gogos and teenagers as well as helping them to participate in Christmas celebration outings.
The bulk of our funding is currently used for monthly distributions of food staples to approximately 70 grannie-led and child-led families in Alexandra and in Kwazulu Natal. Due to our advocacy and outreach we have succeeded in raising awareness and concern in our own community. |
